community concerns of surveillance, racial, and religious profiling arab, middle eastern, muslim, a south asian communities and potential reactivation of police department intelligence gathering and report published by the san francisco human- rights commission. supervisor avalos: supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: -- without compromising the values we hold near and dear to our hearts of our citizenry -- since september 11th, 2001, numerous public debates have centered on security and civil rights. these debates have played out in the form of public conversations and controversies, including remarks made by then early on chief gas donor regarding persons of middle eastern and afghani dissent. the chief's comments caused concern among san francisco community members including the arab, middle eastern and south asian citizens, there referred to acronym is amemsa. we sought to address these concerns by the police department and addressing concerns about the perspective news that there would be an intel unit created with regard to the san francisco police department wanting to upgrade its

americans and people who are here to be considered american, whether they are muslim american, south asianis something we are noticing without fail, a trend that makes municipal governments have to speak up at times. this was not the first time we have spoken up. in the mid-1990s, after the first gulf war, there has also been the creation of the intel unit by the san francisco police department. it had been summarily disbanded in approximately 1995. that was not well known by the larger community of the kind of data being collected then by

comments caused concern among san francisco community members including the arab, middle eastern and south asian citizens, there referred to acronym is amemsa. we sought to address these concerns by the police department and addressing concerns about the perspective news that there would be an intel unit created with regard to the san francisco police department wanting to upgrade its surveillance and intelligence policies and working with both state and federal organizations, and denounced to many organizations that have been working on these issues for a long, long time. that particular need was manifested, facilitated through a number of hearings, in particular, one that took place on september 23rd, 2010 were over 150 people attended the hearing to present their concerns. coming out of that particular hearing was a report developed that is before us right now and i'm going to let the director speak about this in a second called community concerns of surveillance, racial, religious profiling of arab middle eastern, muslim, and south asian communities and potential reactivation of police depar

community concerns of surveillance, racial, religious profiling of arab middle eastern, muslim, and south asian communities and potential reactivation of police department's intelligence gathering. it provides out reached an prior to the hearing, making sure it is not just knee-jerk or reflexive to concerns simply based on headline news concerns, but really based on substantive issues of which direction our city may be going through its law enforcement strategies. this report identifies strategies for san francisco to address community concerns and a commitment to nondiscrimination including the amemsa community: while upholding its obligation in protecting our citizenry. the san francisco human-rights committee unanimously passed this report. relative to this, i submitted a resolution earlier this month, simply endorsing the work of the hrc and the larger community at hand. that resolution, offered by myself and co-sponsored by a number of supervisors, including share avalos and supervisor mar have brought us to this conclusion. i think these deliberations are not unfamiliar to just san franci

of religious organizations or certain communities that are arabic, middle eastern, muslim, and south asian. these have been increasing, at least in anecdotal evidence. there was a substantive hearing less than a uriko that a number of us had attended and listened -- less than i uriko that a number of us had attended and listened to -- less than a year ago, that a number of us have intended it and listen to that suggested an sfpd was overstepping the boundaries in working with federal agencies. this legislation shores up the elements that are important to us. we have encouraged the police commission to have of follow up hearing. at the time of the hearing, we would very much like to have the police department represented. the police protocols that have been outlined by the police department, how they would conducts wouldintel -- how they would conduct their intel practices with federal agencies, and not deviate from those. i would like to thank the asian law caucus, the aclu. your support would be very appreciated. supervisor chiu: supervisor elsbernd . supervisor elsbernd: this resolution

all three of the stories involve muslim individuals who are of arab or south asian decent and raise concerned about the police officers undering under the guise of the joint terrorism task force and i share these stories because i think it is important to understand that when we are talking about policy and who signed what and what it means keep in mind the people impacted by this and the fear created in the community and the long-term impact in terms of under mining the relationship making community policing less and less a possibility. >> thank you. >> at some point tonight i will be asking the commission to schedule a joint hearing with the human rights commission. this is supported by the mayor. just for the record myself, the chief and commander mahoney met with teresa sparks, our former president of the police commission and now the executive director of the human rights commission. we met with their council. the reason for the meeting is specifically in response to the release of this m.o.u. between the f.b.i. and the san francisco police department. and i will state for the record tha

community concerns of surveillance, racial, and religious profiling arab, middle eastern, muslim, a south asianential reactivation of police department intelligence gathering and report published by the san francisco human- rights commission.

south asian and seek parents are more concerned than ever about their children. in one egregious case a muslim high school student was subjected to a harrowing ordeal in which he was frequently labeled a terrorist, punched in the groin, and sat upon by fellow teenagers. sometimes his mother would catch him rocking back and forth, asking -- why me? what did i ever do to them? one day he was beaten so severely that his mother took him to a doctor. there was blood in his urine and he suffered from headaches and memory loss. the assailants were later arrested and charged with a hate crime. this is just one vayo example -- vile example of anti-muslim bigotry playing out across america. parents worry about the future. will america be hospitable to minority faith? will it better angels prevail? or will freedom and respect become relics of the past? anti-muslim bigotry has been simmering in a growing sense september 11. an attack on all americans, muslims included. anti-muslim rhetoric has reached disturbing new levels. prominent political leaders have joined the fray, s

like yemeni -- not all of them, but yemeni store owners, you know, south asian motel owners. like, they just had a big entertainment constitution in oakland, so they show these, you know, poor young women out on the block. they went to the motel where the operation curs, the headquarters actually of these operations, and they asked this south asian guy, did he know -- he said, he knew what was going on. he was making a lot of profit from this. the yemeni score owners, they are running liquor stores disguised as grocery stores. so you might get a couple of bananas, maybe a cabbage or something. but they're selling liquor. and carla worked with a young playright, yeah, carla. she worked with a young youngplayright, and he wrote a play called "domestic crusaders" which has gotten worldwide recognition. hbo's hired him to do a pilot for a detective series. so he interviewed a yemeni store owner who we've been trying to get to our meetings for years. and every time he comes i said all the murders taking place on your block, crime and everything. he didn't know anything about it. h

professor at the south asian institute at columbia university. we rehearsed this over coffee and i knew i would blow it. i apologize. there is a long standing tied to columbia university here. i am an alumni of columbia. it is nice to be present among former and later classmates. and the residence south asian adviser for the u.s. institute of peace. moeed yusuf will speak to last. i want to thank him for the support he has given to make this program possible. without further reductions, let's get started. >> this is the first public event i've been to it the new building. i must say it is quite spectacular and i can understand why you get distracted from your daily work when there's so much light coming in all the time. i was asked to shed some light on this topic. i will start off with a little bit of a downer by saying that pakistan today is very dysfunctional. there is the accumulation of decades of action and inaction that has led to a very sharp division between the military and the civil in various areas of foreign interest. the lack of pub

what i did do in my northwest london suburb, there were the first italians, the first asians south asians, indians, sri lankans so i knew i was in a different part of london. mostly it was dark and gray and broody and understated. my father was someone who was in business unhappily who always wanted to go into the theater. my father was not understated. he read dickens to us outloud when i was young. so i was yearning for the breakout britain which, you know happened in the '60s in spectacularly... >> rose: music and... >> wild irresponsible feckless culture. that i drank deep of. but it's happened in the sense that we have one or two generations of people who are not as e.m. forster said the ping or gray races and their food and culture and language has organically become part of the waylon don is. that's a miraculous transformation. it's the streetiest street city. it makes paris look tweedy by comparison. not really but... (laughs) >> rose: tell me about churchill >> well, i was fwhorn '45 and there are two ways in which you couldn't get away from churchill. we really believed at home

. >> hi, i represent south asian-americans leading together. we just started a campaign called america for all of us where we're actually dealing with some of the similar ideas. >> give us the website so that people know. >> it's saalt.org so please do enjoy the campaign. it's again for community engagement and things like that. but i think that one aspect that we're trying to address also and i feel like i should get your input on that is that i think a lot of the division in this culture of hatred that's been created in the u.s. has become worse in the past few years and a big chunk is because of what we allowed our elected representatives to get away with. so, you know, peter king saying things there are too many mosques in this country and, you know, just these kind of statements have created a complete division, you know, within the country. and whereas getting the community and getting the youth to sort of talk about, you know, creating unity and, you know, harmony, i think there's a big needles to sort of get some accountability from our

are for speaker this morning will be shuja nawaz, the director of the south asian center at "the atlanticl. he will be followed by hassan abbas, the quaid-i-azam professor -- i blue duck, didn't i? [laughter] the professor of the south asia institute at columbia university. we practice is this more and over coffee and i blue duck i apologize. but there's a long-standing -- there's a lot of columbia university ties you and i have today, i am an alumni of columbia university so it's nice to be present among former and later classmates. and, finally, the resident south asian advisor of the niceties institute of peace, moeed yusuf, who is with us and we'll speak last, our cleanup hitter. i want to thank him personally for all of the support that he is given to make this program possible. so without further introduction, let's get started. >> thank you, bob. >> come up to the podium. >> okay. thank you very much, bob. it's a pleasure and an honor to be here. this is the first public event i've been to at the new building, and i must say it's quite spectacular. i can understand why you are dist

[laughter] the quaid-i-azam professor at the south asian institute at columbia university. we rehearsed this over coffee this morning, and i knew i was going to blow it, and i apologize. but there's a long-standing, there's a lot of columbia university types here and i have to that, i'm an alumni of columbia university so it's nice to be present among former and later classmates. and, finally, the resident of south asia adviser of the united states institute of peace, moeed yusuf, who is with us and will speak last, our cleanup hitter. and i want to thank them personally for all of the support that he has given to make this program possible. so without further introductions, let's get started. >> thank you, bob. thank you very much, bob. it's a pleasure and an honor to be your. this is the first public event i've been to add the new building, and i must say it's quite spectacular, and i can understand why you are distracted from your daily work with this magnificent light coming in all the time. well, i was asked to shed some light on this topic, and let me start off with a

a member of parliament for eight years, represented their hometown which has a very significant south asian population from pakistan and bangladesh, and i still live in my home top, and they -- how many -- hometown, and the conversations actually happen and my jewish friends revere, and it's not as in the -- they say why can't we be organized? why are we so pathetic with our case? it doesn't feel like it from our side, but they think that they couldn't -- we have a phrase in the north of england and it's very difficult to plant fog, and they don't think they are effective, but the truth is they have been very, very good just like the nonstate actors at applying and adapting. they are opportunists. they smell a changing wind and capitalize on it. our problem that we have is our architecture both in america and in europe is established. it's like supertankers like governments and that's why israel finds it hard to adapt with state and nonstate actors, and it's very similar to the organized jewish community versus basically beyond organizations that are capitalizing on events and so when in br

know, i think -- i did just as well as anybody who would have gone there, who happened to be of south asian background. i don't think you need to be of a certain ethnicity or race or color. and that i object to. i don't need giving people a break. i don't need, you know -- you know, giving, you know, the opportunity that one, you know, that anybody deserves but at the same time i don't think that we should have beats that are referred for certain races. [applause] >> and, you know, my experience is it doesn't work, either. it just creates resentment in the newsroom and bad journalism. >> what do you have to say about ed's question about the tucson -- >> i have a lot to say about that. it was deeply unfortunate that the "times" led the pack in assuming it was political in nature. paul krugman's blog on january 8th and then january 9th, he blogged something to the effect of -- we don't have proof yet that this was political but odds are, that it was. and there were other journalists who took their cues from that. i'm concerned about the tone of civic and civil discourse in this country. and i

stocks went south in most asian markets after china reported a jump in inflation.kei fell almost 1%, while hong kong's hang seng lost a fraction. also this morning, moody's downgraded ireland's government bond, deepening the debt fears in europe. >>> today, wall street gets the latest on consumer prices and industrial production. on thursday, stocks finished with small gains despite a jump in the jobless claims report. the dow closed up 14 points while the nasdaq gave back 1. >>> the s.e.c. is reportedly close to settling fraud allegations with several big banks. "the wall street journal" says a settlement could come as early as next week. federal regulators have been investigating the sale of toxic mortgage bonds that helped trigger the financial crisis. firms being scrutinized for misleading investors include jpmorgan chase, citigroup, and ubs. none of them is expected to face as big a fine as goldman sachs which paid $550 million last year. >>> a rare disappointment from google. after the closing bell first quarter earnings came in below expectations as the inte

we are in partnership with several countries, south korea, east asian countries, and india. why? these are the countries that we tend to share values. and also, in the document we talked about changing american positions? i forget. there was talk about changing american position in the world. which means, relative decline. we did not say the decline of the u.s., but changing. you can look at the original document. japan is not rising, but declining. and -- japan is not rising and not declining. but it is declining in relation to china. we have to mobilize new partners. we have to find new partners to make the balance right. those are the countries that we think will be, and hope will be , emerging partners. >> this one is very important and it struck me in the original report that became the national defense program guidelines that there was a centerpiece that did not get much attention, which is the expectation -- this is not my reading, but the way the media dealt with it. there was this expectation that it was in full decline. and because of this, -- it was a euphemism. they s

it as senior director of near east and south asian affairs. his department posts include two tours as u.s. ambassador to israel and service as assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. before entering government service, he served for eight years as founding executive director of the washington institute for near east policy. he writes, many of the editorials on foreign-policy. his columns have been required reading for those interested in the inner workings of america's strategy in the middle east and u.s.-israel relations. he reported on the middle east from jerusalem and has covered latin-american and eastern european politics from bazaar isouth america and poland. his diplomatic posts include assistant secretary of state for international organizations which covers the un. he is [unintelligible] democracy promotion to my human rights policy. we have a reporter who has covered these issues day in and out. he will give the floor to each of our panelists to open with a few remarks before he opens it up to questions. i would like to

. >> i represent south asian americans leading together. >> give us the website. saalt.org. i feel that i should get your input. i think a lot of the division and this culture of hatred that has been created in the u.s. has become worse in the past few years. a big chunk of that is because what we have allowed our elected representatives to get away with. peter king saying things like there are too many mosques in this country and these kinds of statements have created a complete division within the country. whereas, like, getting the community and getting the youth to talk about creating unity and harmony, i think there's a big need also to get some accountability from our elected officials and tell them to just stop, stop this complete ridiculous thing that is going on where you can get away with saying the things that you have. if you have any input on how your campaign can address those things -- >> i want to say amen. i totally agree with that. i think holding people accountable who spew hatred is everybody's responsibility. elected officials really listen to their vote

she is co-founder of indian mutiny the digital focused cultural blog in the south asian bias for a. she brings cash genetically interest, personal interest that race and class affect how everything plays out in our city and she ran the blog solo for six months. the evolution has coincided with our own growth of our digital effort as a station and we brought an online managing editor from the print world to be our editorial oversight for all our text and video and he saw the need for a broader approach to our blog then one person's force and observation. we realized early observations style of writing needs to be balanced by more traditional journalism with a topic like the census which has to be cast effectively through a prism of race in class. to that end in march we hired elahe izadi who joins me here today. she came from dtv.org which was an experiment. i would love for her to talk about how we are utilizing the dual approach and will serve to compare and contrast how it is to blog for commercial media to blogging for public media. >> i came from tvd and quite quickly and was ab

not only because south africa has been brought in and africa now has a representation as well but more importantly there will be a kind of. political was i used to fusion allies asian now. aside from brics we also have bilateral and trilateral discussions between russia and china between india and brazil and south africa etc so what we are experiencing i think now is actually not to growing up. getting a seat at the table that somebody else are set but actually thinking about the size and shape and the kind of people that we need ok pepe if i can go to you i mean one thing that could really makes a power works in is the bric countries expand their influence and maybe having a more common common agenda is getting rid of the dollar i mean if you can if you got them all together and started working on a that would be a pretty amazing event in may and maybe that's what the one major event the world needs to really shake it out. exactly this this is this is what the chinese and the brazilian specially have been talking by a lottery i would say for at least two years now reform of the international finance system and adopting a basket of currencies which would probably i

member of parliament in britain for eight years, represent my hometown which has a very significant south asian population from pakistan, kashmir and bangladesh and i still live in my hometown. the conversations often happen which is a great irony to my jewish community friends, where they revere, not as in -- etc. but they say why can't we be organized? why are we so pathetic at putting our case while it doesn't feel like it from our side, but they think that we have or phrase in the north of england. it is very difficult and they don't think that they are very effective but the truth is that what they have done is they have been very very good just like state actors are and applying and adapting. they are opportunists. they are like good sailors. they smell a changing wind and they capitalized on it and a problem that we have instead our architecture both in america and in europe is established like supertankers, like government and that is why israel finds it hard and as you know this stage and it is very similar to the organized jewish community versus basically the young organization that

it as senior director of near east and south asian affairs. his department posts include two tours as u.s. ambassador to israel and service as assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. before entering government service, he served for eight year as founding executive director of the washington institute for near east policy. he writes, many of the editorials on foreign-policy. his columns have been required reading for those interested in the inner workings of america's strategy in the middle east and u.s.-israel relations. he rorted on the middle east from jerusalem and has covered latin-american and etern european politics from bazaar isouth america and poland. his diplomatic posts include assistant secretary of state for ternational organizations which covers the un. he is [unintelligible] democracy promotion to my human rights policy. we have a reporter who has covered these issues day in and out. he will give the floor to each of our panelists to open with a few remarks before he opens it up to questions. i would like to thank a

member of parliament in britain for eight years, represent my hometown which has a very significant south asian population from pakistan, kashmir and bangladesh and i still live in my hometown. the conversations often happen which is a great irony to my jewish community friends, where they revere, not as in -- etc. but they say why can't we be organized? why are we so pathetic at putting our case while it doesn't feel like it from our side, but they think that we have or phrase in the north of england. it is very difficult and they don't think that they are very effective but the truth is that what they have done is they have been very very good just like state actors are and applying and adapting. they are opportunists. they are like good sailors. they smell a changing wind and they capitalized on it and a problem that we have instead our architecture both in america and in europe is established like supertankers, like government and that is why israel finds it hard and as you know this stage and it is very similar to the organized jewish community versus basically the young organization that

certain political orientation or both political orientation so instead of having another asian like indonesia or south korea or turkey from the middle east in fact they discussed in brazil last year it was supposed to be gripped. with turkey but instead at the last minute said no we need this somebody from africa and obviously they can have nigeria they can have livia ruptures reasons so they chose south africa which is the most powerful african economy so it's a continental wide goalball appeal but the most important thing in my view is what what what should the greeks do so they are very influential inside the g. twenty so major economic decisions have to be supported by brics inside the g twenty and it just seven as we all know is history some people could see that in fact we are living in a g.'s iraq because nobody is in charge of aliasing and i partially subscribe to this view as well and there is also the political component very important voting of you when the resolution one nine seventy three. the four major brics they abstained they coordinated this ok germany but that south africa did with

advisor on middle east peacemaking in the clinton administration, as senior director of near east and south asian affairs at the national security council. his state department posts included two tours as u.s. ambassador to israel and service as assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. before entering government services, the ambassador sir for eight years of the founding executive director of the washington institute for near east policy. as deputy editorial page editor of "the washington post, his columns have been required reading for those interested in the inner workings of the american strategy in the middle east and u.s.-israel relations. he reported on the wrist from jerusalem and has covered latin american and eastern european politics from buenos aires and warsaw. elliott abrams has served as deputy directory -- director for global democracy strategy to president george w. bush and held the positions of senior director for democracy and human rights and senior director for the near east in the bush white house. his diplomatic posts include assistant secretary of state for int

so south asian is something that needs to be promoted. and, finally, there was a constitutional mechanism for the military to have a say in security sector decision-making. which was a constitutional in turkey, but something around the nsc or the cabinet defense committee, where the two sides have the means to sit down and talk together rather than at each other. perhaps in the short run is a sub optimal but better solution than actually looking for this idealism. thank you. >> i'd like to thank the members of the panel for three very informative presentations. i'd like to now move to the question and answer part of our program this morning, and also i'd like to welcome c-span who is broadcasting live, and also television has been with us this morning. the way we are going to do this in order to capture people's questions for the television audience is to ask you to move to one of the two stationary microphones that are in the room. one is back year, the other is over here. so if you have a question, please move to one of those microphone

overnight asian markets rebounded as well. south korea's finished up more than 2%. hang sang gaining more than 1.5%. asian investors are encouraged by strong u.s. earnings reports and better than expected news on the u.s. housing starts and that spread to europe as well. checking in on wall street, it looks like we'll have a higher opening. couple of those good earnings, ibm and spell better than expected. at&t's earnings hurt though by the loss of the exclusive contract with the iphone. apple reports after the closed here's where we start the day. >>> also this morning toyota announced it is further cutting production in north america because it can't get enough parts after last month's earthquake and tsunami. plants in the u.s. and canada will operate at 50% of capacity. but toyota says there will be no layoffs. >>> time now 5:20. well, dolphins and sea lions turning up dead along the california coast. what's killing them? could it be the food they're eating? >>> plus the reason the bay area's largest city may become home to the fewest number of medical marijuana d

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